loooong posts explination

[We Never Know]

I generally won't post long posts.

However when posting a story from a link, anymore I will try to add the whole story in the post text because I realize not everyone can access some links.

Just figured it would be courteous so everyone that wants to read the story can

 

[Secret Chief]

I generally won't post long posts.

However when posting a story from a link, anymore I will try to add the whole story in the post text because I realize not everyone can access some links.

Just figured it would be courteous so everyone that wants to read the story can

tl;dr

 

[Twilight Hue]

I generally won't post long posts.

However when posting a story from a link, anymore I will try to add the whole story in the post text because I realize not everyone can access some links.

Just figured it would be courteous so everyone that wants to read the story can

Walls of text are generally put offs.

 

[Revoltingest]

Walls of text are generally put offs.

Long excerpts from a link benefit from....
- Excising portions that are less useful.
- Making it clear which portion of a post is an excerpt.
- Explaining why so much is excerpted, eg, paywall.
- Breaking up one's post into segments, eg,
one for the link & excerpt...another for commentary.

 

[Quagmire]

@We Never Know just bear this in mind:

From Rule 7: ". . . and limit your quotation to a paragraph or two rather than quoting the entire content".

It's not something we enforce all that strictly, but it's there and it's something to be aware of.

 

[sun rise]

@We Never Know just bear this in mind:

From Rule 7: ". . . and limit your quotation to a paragraph or two rather than quoting the entire content".

It's not something we enforce all that strictly, but it's there and it's something to be aware of.

I very very very seldom quote everything because that's a clear copyright violation.

 

[Revoltingest]

@We Never Know just bear this in mind:

From Rule 7: ". . . and limit your quotation to a paragraph or two rather than quoting the entire content".

It's not something we enforce all that strictly, but it's there and it's something to be aware of.

Longer posts are necessary when
suspecting that a paywall would
prevent posters from viewing it.
The standard should be...
Is it useful?

 

[We Never Know]

@We Never Know just bear this in mind:

From Rule 7: ". . . and limit your quotation to a paragraph or two rather than quoting the entire content".

It's not something we enforce all that strictly, but it's there and it's something to be aware of.

Thanks. No biggie. I will just go back to posting a few paragraphs with the link.

 

[Stevicus]

I generally won't post long posts.

However when posting a story from a link, anymore I will try to add the whole story in the post text because I realize not everyone can access some links.

Just figured it would be courteous so everyone that wants to read the story can

Just remember that there's a 12,000 character limit per post. I know this from experience.